PRINCELY JEWELS FROM THE CREVASSE OF POST ROCK

[cranley]

what about beta band 3 ep's? post rock?

Maybe something that was running parallel but not in the pit?

Still waiting for CONSTELLATION RECORDS confessionals....

I still have that piece of copper/metal from inside that GYBE record....

I still have that penny too. I still have most if not all GYBE records but I cannot find the time to get back into any of it.  Kranky releasing `expanded` editions of their records made absolutely no sense....pretty sure that shit was expanded enough.

[Indoorsman]

Oh, forgot about Main.  I think The Motion Pool is great flatline electronics with just enough tenuous connection to rock'n'structure to keep it interesting.  The Hz EPs are cool and short enough that they don't get dull.

[Swampy]

Oh, forgot about Main.  I think The Motion Pool is great flatline electronics with just enough tenuous connection to rock'n'structure to keep it interesting.  The Hz EPs are cool and short enough that they don't get dull.

I totally dig Main, but they're in the "Isolationist" genre, not "Post-Rock"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Indoorsman]

Stop Balkanizing my record collection!  Do you work at Rasputin's or something?

[allergictofun]

That name: Sabalon Glitz (or whatever) is right on the edge of my memory. Who dat?

Oh yeah: the real fey UK PR: Disco Inferno + aforementioned Talk Talk

Did Bowie do a Post-Rock album? cuz he shoulda

A friend from college who was in this band just got in contact after like thirteen years. Both the dude and the band name had long since been sloughed from brain webs. Thanks, thread!

[Indoorsman]

Another putrid slice of the subgenre pie: Ui.  They're made all the worse by the amount of shit Sasha Frere-Jones talks.

[allergictofun]

"skittering" drums

This was really was the key word (and sound) of the McEntire zeitgeist.

There actually was a bunch of interesting stuff I thought during this period, but whole Chicago thing really put a big boring blanket over the whole thing.  Admittedly I was pretty into that stuff at first, but the Chi-town post-rock vortex was just so dry and serious that it just sucked the fun right out of whatever interesting experiments were happening. For years, that damn skittering indie-prog style drumming was all over everything. Even now I'll still hear something that sounds really cool and it'll quickly be ruined by the McEntire school of drumming...

[bruce]

Another putrid slice of the subgenre pie: Ui.  They're made all the worse by the amount of shit Sasha Frere-Jones talks.

 

i always get them mixed up with UT and can never remember which one's good until i get home

[allergictofun]

Another putrid slice of the subgenre pie: Ui.  They're made all the worse by the amount of shit Sasha Frere-Jones talks.

No shit. I totally blame him, perhaps unfairly, for the irritating current trend (see Pitchfork) of writers who find it necessary to give equal time and 'respect' to both underground 'indie' music and mainstream hip hop. Not that I really care about what the New Yorker has to tell me about new music, but I always get the feeling that his academic music school-iness means that there needs to be some kind of hip hop / 'urban' influence in any non-hip hop record he reviews for him to take it seriously or for it to have any cultural import. Otherwise it's ignored or its 'refreshingly retro' or 'unabashedly white suburban' or something...

[allergictofun]

Oh, forgot about Main.  I think The Motion Pool is great flatline electronics with just enough tenuous connection to rock'n'structure to keep it interesting.  The Hz EPs are cool and short enough that they don't get dull.

I totally dig Main, but they're in the "Isolationist" genre, not "Post-Rock"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I always thought they were more 'out rock'. Remember that? It always seemed so gay.

[Indoorsman]

  It's a pity the rest of America hasn't been exposed to the wonders of black music, like Sasha gets by osmosis in NYC.  Uncle Sasha, tell us about Beyonce again!

  C'mon, Bruce, out with it:  UT or UI?  Chicks or dicks?

[erickelric]

Haha. Main have lots of great stuff. That shit truly is "post-rock" especially considering they were formerly in heavy ROCK bands (Loop, Hair & Skin Trading Co. - gotta give it up for Over Valence).

I was gonna mention Ui and throw those bitches to the lions. What a shit band, the beginning of the end.

Hey, what about Mouse Parade? Tortoise as totem animal.

And good point about that "skittering" drum thing.
It's funny too cuz McEntire's drumming in Bastro is heavy as shit. Dude could rock them drums once upon a time.

[Swampy]

Muckentire even played some decent drums on some My Dad is Dead stuff before going skittery...

I'm thinking of other bands that were on, say, Thrill Jockey Records that might be "post-rock"...

Bill Ding? Anybody ever hear them. I'm sure they must suck, post-rock or not...

[erickelric]

Bill Ding was John Hughes' son. Later had a decent electronic thing called Slicker.

[DJ Rick]

I rather liked that one song on a Bill Ding 7"....something about a knick in the car door? Tried to listen to an album of it later.....wasn't happening.